Teeth Out is the debut album from The Silence Set, released on November 6th via the Scottish, independent label mini50.
Some collaborations start out with a fully formed idea of the end result. The creative process becomes something of a straight line, a mapped out road towards a clearly visible and tangible goal. The Silence Set didn’t begin this way.
It began with total freedom, a tabula rasa in the truest sense. It began from a mutual respect and from an idea of working without limitations or boundaries.
The Silence Set consists of Gothenburg based musicians and composers Dag Rosenqvist and Johan G Winther. The former perhaps best known as the now defunct Jasper TX and for his From the Mouth of the Sun project with Aaron Martin, the latter for his work in angular math rock outfit Scraps of Tape and from his previous solo effort as Tsukimono.
Over the course of three years, the sounds of acoustic guitar, pump organ, piano, banjo and voice were caught on tape, rearranged, processed and, coupled with other sounds and recordings, left waiting for months on end. All the while life changed, relationships ended, new life began and older lives ended. More sounds were recorded, arranged, and left to wait.
Finally tracks started to emerge. Tracks with lyrics and titles, some sort of structure; something resembling actual songs. Slowly an album began to take shape. Kristofer Ström joined in to perform trumpet on one track. Heather Woods Broderick (wonderful musician in her own right and recently part of Sharon Van Etten’s band) played flute, wrote lyrics and sang. Nils Frahm contributed both his mixing skills as well as synthesizer.
Eventually an album was complete, only to be left waiting for months on end. And life changed even more.
